Tag: megabasins
the opponents of the “mega-basins” of Sainte-Soline go by bike to Paris
Five months after the violent clashes in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres, western France), several hundred basin opponents left on Friday near this controversial agricultural irrigation reserve for a week-long journey by bike…
Retreats, mega-basins … This violence that will never do the business of the left
Floating in the air a wind of May 1968. In the streets of Paris, already. Since the government unsheathed 49.3, the protests against the pension reform have taken another, more…
Mega-basins: in Spain, the model of water reservoirs is running out of steam
They say no to bedpans. Thousands of people gathered this weekend in the Deux-Sèvres department, in Sainte-Soline, to demonstrate against these vast reservoirs dedicated to crop irrigation. The demonstration turned…
Mega-basins: in Sainte-Soline, the foreign press echoes “a destructive spiral”
The prohibited demonstration in Sainte-Soline did not go unnoticed in the foreign press. If the mobilization could have given rise to a debate around water management, in Deux-Sèvres and more…
Mega-basins: why Sainte-Soline is at the heart of tensions
They could be renamed the “basins of anger”. The new demonstration against these water tanks is placed under high security, this Saturday, March 25 in Deux-Sèvres. Up to 10,000 people…
opponents of mega-basins are mobilizing again in Deux-Sèvres
Opponents of mega-basin projects are mobilizing this weekend in France. This Saturday, March 25, from 10 a.m., nearly 10,000 people are expected in the Deux-Sèvres department, despite the prefecture’s bans,…
The disputed project of mega-basins “aims to make better use of water”, defends Marc Fesneau
08:44 On November 2, work for the construction of a water reservoir or “mega-basin” must resume in Sainte-Soline in Deux-Sèvres, in western France. After the protests last weekend, opponents of…
Mega-basins and water war
Last weekend, several thousand activists gathered in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), in the heart of the Marais poitevin, where a “water reservoir” is under construction. They tried to obstruct the work and…
Anti-basins demonstration: “We should be able to fill these mega-basins with only rain”
Last Saturday, clashes broke out between police and protesters in Sainte-Oline, in Deux-Sèvres, in western France. Several thousand demonstrators expressed their dissatisfaction with the project to build a “mega-basin”, a…